St. Paul Baptist Church at Halsellville, originally known as St. Paul Colored Baptist Church, was formally organized by 1884 on nearby Goings Road and moved to this location in 1901. Members acquired land for the church cemetery in 1929 after previously sharing the Old Zion Church cemetery near the original church site. Carter Colored School is believed to have opened in the early 1900s in a one-room schoolhouse on nearby Carter Road, then moved by the 1930s into a two-room school behind St. Paul Baptist Church, where it served African American children of Halsellville and eventually enrolled grades 1-7. It closed in 1957 during the consolidation of Chester Co.'s country schools and was replaced by an equalization school.